Re: About Arc

Jeff Rollin wrote:

Meh. Assuming Scheme has sufficient libraries to bring it up to the
functionality of CLtL2, would Scheme + libraries be any smaller than CL?

Somewhat, but not immensely. Scheme is a Lisp-1 and Common Lisp is a Lisp-n. This means that to a certain extent, some operators have to be provided several times, once for each namespace that needs to be covered (you need let and flet, defun and defvar, and so on...).


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